tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post5309944153384777253..comments2024-03-14T13:25:20.613-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: “No Religious Test Shall Ever Be Required”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-20410102841645599342010-10-29T15:03:55.741-05:002010-10-29T15:03:55.741-05:00Dear Anon,
Do the Christians believe in capital pu...Dear Anon,<br />Do the Christians believe in capital punishment for homosexuality, adultery, astrology, being a disrespectful child, being a drunken son, blasphemy, breaking the Sabbath, perjury, incest, bestiality and witchcraft?<br /><br />Would you like to ask them how they can reconcile these commandments with democracy?Daud Alzayerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00159094499713375760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-30611411262004317772010-10-27T14:35:52.254-05:002010-10-27T14:35:52.254-05:00The only time I was on N.P.R., the show (The Bryan...The only time I was on N.P.R., the show (<i>The Bryant Park Project</i>) was canceled a few weeks later. I'd hate for that to happen to other public-radio shows I like.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-43000244481172754822010-10-27T14:33:51.751-05:002010-10-27T14:33:51.751-05:00And I'm sure you ask Christian congresspeople ...And I'm sure you ask Christian congresspeople how they reconcile Gospel teachings with capitalism and warfare.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-18382748210977471042010-10-27T07:09:46.852-05:002010-10-27T07:09:46.852-05:00Perhaps this blog should affiliate with NPR?Perhaps this blog should affiliate with NPR?Augustenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-36339278397089574642010-10-26T23:26:22.697-05:002010-10-26T23:26:22.697-05:00Do these 2 Muslim Congressmen believe that apostat...Do these 2 Muslim Congressmen believe that apostates (ex-Muslims) should be killed, as the Koran teaches?<br /><br />Do they believe that blasphemers should be killed -- a right which also comes under the 1st Amendment right to free speech -- also as the Koran teaches?<br /><br />I'd really like to ask them how they can reconcile Islamic teachings with democracy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-81438874800224988742010-10-26T23:23:02.161-05:002010-10-26T23:23:02.161-05:00I suppose the notion that the Constitution protect...I suppose the notion that the Constitution protects only religions that its authors knew about would mean that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are protected, but Mormons, Christian Scientists, Seventh-Day Adventists, Pentecostalists, and others in churches created in America since the 1790s aren’t. <br /><br />And Methodists? Maybe half-protected.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-66263122587309957072010-10-26T20:12:25.762-05:002010-10-26T20:12:25.762-05:00In the 1840s, there was the same religious bigotry...In the 1840s, there was the same religious bigotry going on about Catholics - especially in NYC. Raising itself again in 1960 with JFK's Catholicism, but nowhere to the extent that anti-Catholic feelings were the early part of the 19th century. Isn't it strange how the more things change, the more they stay the same?!John L. Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14827783825431694038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-20784326692842884172010-10-26T12:56:20.104-05:002010-10-26T12:56:20.104-05:00I've actually argued with my own mother about ...I've actually argued with my own mother about this issue (though not this specific case). Some people are utterly convinced that "religion" in this case refers to denomination and that the framers of the constitution were not thinking of other religions which lay outside their sphere of awareness.Daud Alzayerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00159094499713375760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-58980036153528911232010-10-26T11:18:19.045-05:002010-10-26T11:18:19.045-05:00Well doneWell doneRoJahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06824873181460292212noreply@blogger.com